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Economics / health care, job creation, jobs, medicare, Obama /

Health Care Reform Costs – Fact or Fiction?

February 11, 2015

Oh dear. I think I’ve just wasted a morning. Here’s the story: a friend of mine points me to an article in the New York Post by someone called Paul Sperry. I don’t read the Post, so I have no idea who that is. The article turns out to be the usual far right series of […]

Economics / government spending, Obama, Republicans, tax policy /

Obama-itis

February 9, 2015

I have a friend who is incapable of saying anything against Obama. It is truly astonishing. He loves Obama’s budget proposals. I hate them. Right now the media is awash with breathless articles arguing that Obama has a great opportunity to ‘do a deal’ with the Republicans. After all he is now ‘concerned with his […]

Economics / austerity, economic theory, Greece, plutocracy /

Rats! History Does Repeat Itself

February 9, 2015

And clearly economists don’t learn from it. Ponder this: “It was all very well for the rich, who could raise all the credit they needed, to clamp rigid deflation and monetary orthodoxy on the economy … it was the little man who suffered, and demanded easy credit and financial unorthodoxy.” That’s the voice of E. […]

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